Cigar-maker&#39;s bunch-roller.



No. 65l,778. Pa tented lune I2, 1900. F. L. snow.

CIGAR MAKERS BUNCH ROLLER.

(Application flled'July 31, 1899.)

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F. L. BROWN.

CIGAR MAKEBS BUNCH ROLLER.

(Application filed July 81, 1899.)

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UNITED STATES FRED LESLIE BROl/VN, OF

EDMONDS, WVASHINGTON.

CIGAR-MAKERS BUNCH-ROLLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 651,778, dated June 12, 1900.

Application filed July 31, 1899.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRED LESLIE BROWN, residing at Edmonds, in the county of Sno homish and State of Washington, have invented a new and Improved Cigar-Makers Bunch-Roller, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cigar-making means, and more particularly to that class of appliances adapted for use on a cigar-makers bench or table.

In its general nature this invention com-' prehends a simple and economicallyconstructed appliance adapted to be fitted to the ordinary cigar-makers bench or table and which has for its purpose to make or assist in the making of the bunch o1 filler composing the body of the cigar.

Furthermore, this invention seeks to provide an attachment of this character which can be easily manipulated by unskilled labor to quickly and properly bind the bunch and by the use of which the filler can be worked drier than can be efiected by hand operation, whereby a freer smoking of the cigar is produced and which is also especially adapted for rolling scrap or short-filler as well as longfiller staple.

Another object of my invention is to provide an appliance of the character statedthat will make hand or mold Work into a tight or loose bunch, and which is capable of rolling the bunch to any shape desired. With other objects in View my invention consists in the peculiar combination and novel arrangement of parts, such as will be firstdescribed in detail and then pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view illustrating my invention as set up for-use. Fig. 2 is a detail transverse section of the bunch-forming rolls, the parts being at their normal position ready to receive the loose filler-bunch. L Fig. 3 illustrates the bnnch-formingrolls partly turned, the bunch partly formed, and the binder partly wound upon the bunch. Fig. 4: illustrates the bunch completely rolled. Fig. 5 illustrates the forming-rolls as returned to their throw-01f .position. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective View of the cutting-board with the bunching devices attached. Fig. 7 is a $erial No. 725,652. (No model.)

detail view of the cutting-board with the main bunching-roll detached. Figs. 8 and 9 are' and 11 are similar views of another supporting-bracket. Fig. 12 is a detailview of the 1 main bunch-forming roll; and Fig. 13 is adetail view, hereinafter specifically referred to.

In its practical construction my improved appliance is secured on the back end of a cigarmakers board substantially in the manner illustrated in Fig. l, and it, together with the board, secured in place after the table 1 has been suitably cut out to allow for a proper fitting of the said board and the appliance thereon.

The appliance per 82 comprises a pair of forming-rolls, a receiver, a forming or rolling apron, and means for adjusting the slack of the apron, whereby to govern the size of the bunch to be rolled, and supporting-brackets for the said several parts.

By referring now more particularly to Figs. 2, 3, 4:, and 5 it will be seen the pair of rolls are jo'urnaled in a horizontal plane with their peripheral edges in close relation; but one of the rolls, (the outer,) which I shall term the receiver-roll, as it has pockets to receive the tobacco for forming the bunch from the hands of theoperator, is of a much larger diameter than the other roll, which I term the presser-roll. The presser-roll 2 is detachably journaled in the supporting-brackets 3 4, that project rearwardly fr'om'the back of the cutting-board 5, the outersurface of the said presser-roll being preferably of a yielding character, such as rubber or felt, as indicated by 2 but this feature is not absolutely necessary, as the said outer surface may be of a solid nature. The receiver-roll 6 is loosely mounted upon a shaft 6, having square end journals 6", adapted to be detachably fitted into non-circular pockets 7, formed upon the ends of the brackets 3 at, as clearly shown in Fig. 6, and one end (or both) of the roll is securedto a spring 8, which has its other end secured to the shaft, (seeFig. 12,) the said spring connection being so made that the roll 6 will be normally rotated outward, (see ar row, Fig. 13,) so as to bring the receivingpocket Y uppermost and in a convenient position to receive the filler or binder from the hands of the operator, and to insure such ad-' justment of the roll 6 whenit is swung back by the spring said roll has a lateral stop-lug 6, that engages a stop-lug 6 upon the adjacent bracket, said lug 6 also serving to limit the forward rotation of the roll 6 by reason of its engagement with the upper face slack to permit its being pressed into the periphery of grooves or pockets X Y in the 'the roll 6.

The pockets X Y extend nearly the full length of the roll and are parallelly arranged I and have their ends bulged outward, as X Y,

whereby to make the pockets the deepest at the center where the cigar-bunch is intended to be rolled the thickest. It should, however, be stated that the exact contour of the saidpockets, as also the external contour. of

the presser-roll, may vary to suit the shape of the cigaror bunch it is desired to make.

terminating in an extenuated concavo-convexed curve, as shown, whereby to provide for a gradual rolling and pressing of the bunch, as will'be'pres'ently more fully explained.

The main roll has its -ends formed with transverse grooveways 11' 11 to; receive the guideendsof the pull-cord or cable-sections 1212,, that are made fast to the rolls, passed down and connected with the treadle, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. v

The adjustable roll 10' has its ends passed through diagonally arranged slots in the brackets 3 4,, and said ends are j-ournaled in eyes 16, formed on theends of the threaded adjustable screw-shafts 16, that pass through a pair of apertured ears 17 formed as a part of the said brackets 3 4. Each screw-shaft it heingobvious that to set the apron the opcrater; has only-to turn the nuts 18 in the direetion desired, which operation can be readily effected without disarranging any of theparts of the appliance or the cutting-board.

The mannerin which my improvement is operated-is best explained as follows, assuming the parts to be in thenormal position, as indicated in Fig. 2': The filler is placed upon the apron portion over the pocket Y (which the spring, 8 brings into position) and pressed, together with the apron, into said pocketY. One end of the binder is then tucked into said pocket back of the filler, the roll 6'being then slightly turned by trcadle manipulation to bring the filler or bunch into engagement withthe, presser-roll 2, which then crowds the fillerer bunch between the space between the two rolls until the bunch begins tobind or work harder, thereby grasping or holdingtlre 1 roll 2, as indicated in Fig. 5. The pocketsfX Y have their inn'eredges end of the binder, it being understood that the presser-roll, by reason 0E1 frictional contact, will rotate toward the roll 6, and as the apron is then drawn in an inward direction it follows that as the two rolls crowd the bunc h between them :the movement of the apron will'tend to'rotate the said bunch at the same time. After the filler is placed into position and has received a partial rotation or compression the binder (which is then held secure at one end by reason of partial compression of filler and end of binderin pocket) is then spread out, and steady pressure is then applied to the treadle until the roll 6 revolves around and is stopped by its stop-lug engag;

'- ing the stop-lug or bank upon the brackets, l at which time the next pocket X will be in I position to receive the rolled bunch ,which by expansive force seats itself-in the said pocket X, and pressure being then released from the treadle the spring upon the roll 6 will revolve the said roll in a reverse direction and c'arry 3 with it the rolled and bound filler-bunch and discharge the same from between'roll 6 and The brackets are made of light metal; the rollers of metal, wood, rubber, or papiermach and'the apron of cloth, leather, orruh- I ber cloth.

From the foregoing, taken in connection with the accompanying (l rawings,.it is thought the advantages and complete operation of my invention will be readily understood;

- It will be observed thatthe construction is of a very simple and economical character and takes up but a minimum aniountof space upon the table and in sucha manner as: not in the slightest impair the full use thereof, it being so arranged that the operator can quickly wrap or bind the bunches as he makes them. The construction is of'suchcharacter and the operation so simple that a boy can be readily instructed to operate the machine. Futhermore, by arranging the apron in the manner stated the appliance can be quickly adjusted to form and bind bunches of various sizes-j I I Having thus described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat cut, is 1'. A tobacco-b-unching machine, co1npris. ing. means for rolling the bunch, including a pair of coacti'ng rolls, and anc'ndless apron made fast 'to' one roll and passed over both rolls; a tension-guide for the apron, one of said rolls having a plurality of receivingcavities in its periphery; manually-operated means for turning. the rolls in one direction 7 to roll the bunch and automatically operating means for brin'gin g the cavity-roll in areverse direction to discharge the rolled bunch.

2. Acigar-bunching machine, comprising .a'. pair of rolls rotatable toward each other, one of said rolls having two pockets, the first being adapted to receive the filler; an endless apron coa'cting with the said rolls; a tension-guide for the said apron; manually-op erated means for moving the rolls and apron in one direction, whereby to compress the filler between the rolls, and automaticallyoperating means for moving the rolls and the apron in a reverse direction to discharge the formed filler when the second pocket of the pocket-roll is brought into a position contiguous With the formed filler.

3. An appliance for the purposes described, comprising a pair of coacting opposing rolls,

one of the said rolls having a pair of periph:

eral receiving pockets or depressions; an endless apron fixedly secured to the pocketed roll, passed over said roll, and the other roll; a guide for the apron, said rolls being held to rotate toward each other, whereby to carry the filler between them and simultaneously move the apron in one direction to roll the filler and binder as the filler is being compressed, and means for automatically moving the pocketed roll in a reverse direction as specified.

t. An appliance for the purposes described, comprising an outer reversely-rotatable roll, having a plurality of peripheral pockets; the presser-roll; supporting-brackets for the said rolls; an endless apron secured to the pocketed roll, and passed over the resser-roll; a guide-roll for the apron, and means for ad 3' usting the guide-roll, for the purposes specified.

5. The combination with the cutting-table; of the brackets extended rearwardly therefrom; the reversely-rotatable receiving-roll having pockets to receive the filler-bunch; the coacting presscr-roll detachably journaled in the said brackets; the endless apron secured to the reversely-rotatable receiver-roll said apron passing thereover and over the presser-roll; a guide-roll around which the apron passes mounted in the supportingbrackets; a spring mechanism for turning the receiver-roll in one direction; a treadle mechanism connected with the said receiverroll for rotating it in a reversed direction against the tension of the spring; and a stop mechanism for limiting the movement of the said roll in the opposite direction, all being arranged substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

6. A tobacco-bunching machine, comprising a supporting-frame; a large roller and a smaller roller having coacting surfaces, each roller having a pair of peripheral cavities or pockets held in parallel planes; an apron passed over the two rollers, said apron hav ing slack; an adjustable guide-roller for the apron, said apron being made fast to the large roller, the first cavity of the large roller being arranged to receive the loose bunch or filler, the second cavity forming a pocket into which the rolled and wrapped bunch is adapted to seat; and spring-actuated devices for reversing the movement of the rolls, when the second cavity moves in aline with the rolled bunch, substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

FRED LESLIE BROWN.

WVitnesses:

E. A. STRONG, A. M. PRIOHARD. 

